Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Tue 10th Jun 2003 01:06 UTC
On March 7th 2003, the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of tradesecrets and contractual agreements. The scope of SCOs complaint is that IBM introduced parts of Unix System V and Project Monterey into the Linux kernel. Project Monterey was a effort to port IBM's AIX 5L onto the Intel Itanium platform, IBM withdrew from that project for reasons unknown according to the press, I believe that it was because the Itanium is a bomb. 
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No, they certainly have reasons for what they're doing.
I agree with you (that they have a reason), but I think their reasons are different. I think it is all about their stock price (which is around $9.00 right now - a large improvement over the $.85 they used to be), and about being bought out by a large company. It's all about money.
I firmly believe that if they released the "offending" lines of code that their case would be invalidated. The OSS folks would audit their change logs, find who really wrote the code, and SCO would be SOL.